Multiple erosive discopathies associated with ankylosing spondylitis
Bonvoisin, B.; Bouvier, M.; Perrin, G.; Goutelle, A.
Journal de Radiologie 62(8-9): 463-466
1981
ISSN/ISBN: 0221-0363 PMID: 6457910 Document Number: 176235
The authors report a case of ankylosing spondylitis affecting a woman with low-back pains. Although initial X-rays did not show any lesions of the spine, one year later, radiographs prove the existence of multiple lesions mimicking spondylodiscitides and characterized by erosions diffusely involving end-plates of cervical, dorsal and lumbar vertebrae. Surgical biopsy at the lumbar site provides an histological evidence of non specific inflammatory lesions.